Video: VH live at Tokyo Dome 2013

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Let's compare this version of Hear About It Later to the one we will supposedly get from the Tokyo Dome show.

Watch this one, then go watch the version from Tokyo. Discuss

No match, it's plain to hear. But who would be fooled? Of course what they offered in 2012-13 didn't compare at all with the glory days.

The question is: what should be left as (and said to be) the "DEFINITIVE" live album? How could the VH bros and Dave consider the Tokyo Dome footage as the Van Halen stuff to remember?

I'll buy it anyway, hoping for old live recordings to be released later. And they will "have to", someday. But they couldn't release 2013 Tokyo Dome if they did Oakland '81 before.

[kwame k]

Not a bad show at all........Ed's spot on throughout and does a great solo.

A YouTube quality live audience taped show is never going to stand up to a professionally done board mix.

Decent set list, too!

I'll give it a look once someone syncs up the HD footage!

I agree that this is being judged from a disappointment at what they should of put out level, still not buying it though

[ELVIS]

The question is: what should be left as (and said to be) the "DEFINITIVE" live album?

Right Here Right Now ??

[Fairwrning]

No match, it's plain to hear. But who would be fooled? Of course what they offered in 2012-13 didn't compare at all with the glory days.

The question is: what should be left as (and said to be) the "DEFINITIVE" live album? How could the VH bros and Dave consider the Tokyo Dome footage as the Van Halen stuff to remember?

I'll buy it anyway, hoping for old live recordings to be released later. And they will "have to", someday. But they couldn't release 2013 Tokyo Dome if they did Oakland '81 before.

True..the earlier stuff would blow the doors off the new..especially Dave..band was tighter back in the day but still top notch today..the vocals have dropped a bit..not Vince Neil bad yet...but noticeable..

[ELVIS]

It's way beyond noticeable...

[Von Halen]

the vocals have dropped a bit..not Vince Neil bad yet...

Denial is a horrible thing.

[kwame k]

Dave's voice isn't shot, per say!

Why he keeps trying sing these songs in a higher register is just plain silly.

Can't anyone sit down and reason with him?

[Von Halen]

Can't anyone sit down and reason with him?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funniest fucking post of the last several years!

[ELVIS]

He's a drummer...

[kwame k]

You're a tool

[kwame k]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funniest fucking post of the last several years!

Why?

Considering the tens of millions of dollars at stake and possibly going back out on a rehash tour.........you'd think maybe this time around they might want a complete band firing on all cylinders instead of the battling who's gonna suck on this tour that Dave and Ed have been doing!

[DLR Bridge]

In the CFTH book, Dave references pressing too hard vocally during the Electric Ladyland demo with Simmons. I think some of the shrill tones he's been hitting in recent years aren't that far removed from what he was reaching for on that 39 year old demo. It's a mystery to me how he's constantly doing that thing that is most notable on DTNA. Maybe his pipes are going through the exact opposite change as David Bowie and Elton John. God only knows. And he ain't talkin'.

[78/84 guy]

Dave's voice isn't shot, per say!

Why he keeps trying sing these songs in a higher register is just plain silly.

Can't anyone sit down and reason with him?

I would think he has heard the mastered tape by now. So if he every goes on a stage again you would think after hearing that shit he would, or will change whatever the hell he is doing wrong. If not he either can't or doesn't care. Time will tell I guess.

[ZahZoo]

It's a mystery to me how he's constantly doing that thing that is most notable on DTNA.

I think that song triggers Dave's inner woman and his fucking estrogen starts pumping heavy... he tends to prance around like fucking Tinker-Bell during that song too... Coincidence?

[ELVIS]

Dave's inner woman ??